]]>By: clydeserrahttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/07/31/red-sox-land-erik-bedard-in-three-team-seven-player-deal/comment-page-2/#comment-172370
Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:22:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172370It smells like bad faith to me. ANderson and PTNL is an over pay for harden given his injury risk. Boston should know this going in, they are not fans, they are working baseball professionals who had a chance to see Harden’s medicals over the winter.

Bedard is equally a good pitcher with a crappy medical history. to me, saying harden bad bedard good is showing that you don’t really care about the medicals as much as, the bedard deal is better.

Cutting out of the Harden deal with 12 hours left on the deadline, after signing off “but for medical” leaving the A’s unable to work on another deal, is suspect to me.

You are right maybe its not actionable, but it would make me pause to work with theo.

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Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:50:08 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172368There’s a huge difference between what we know as a fan and what the medicals say. That’s specific information.
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Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:37:04 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172367nothing in hardens medicals should be a surprise to anyone.
]]>By: Ari Collinshttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/07/31/red-sox-land-erik-bedard-in-three-team-seven-player-deal/comment-page-2/#comment-172366
Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:29:55 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172366He didn’t say that at all. Why is it so hard to believe that the Sox worked out a framework for the deal, then saw his medicals and reconsidered? They got further information, didn’t like what they saw, and backed out. (Or, actually, they lowered their offer, and the As backed out.)
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Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:05:21 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172346Might be true some would say that, but right now I am not certain the Yankees problems are first and foremost in the Rotation. In any case wouldn’t be a great acquistion because the odds are about 59/50 that he would be on the DLby the time we play the Sox any-hoo. Right now I have to concur though, I do not see a second round in the playoffs for the Yankees
this year.
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Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:04:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172344its the timing of the deal and the BS reason for not going through with it.
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Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:01:15 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172343SO you are saying there is a break in Harden’s arm? Yeah, we know, he has been broken for 10 years.

WHy did the SOx negotiate and enter a deal just to say no at the last minute?
You are right, it probably won’t get anywhere because baseball is corrupt, but still it looks fishy to me when a team says Harden is too injured, but bedard is a-ok

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Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:23 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172342The grievance would be what, exactly? “Our guy was better, but you gave more for Bedard!”? That’s, umm, not grounds for a grievance whatsoever.
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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:58:40 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172340If Anderson ever shows he’s even a backup at the major league level the Sox will send him somewhere.
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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:55:48 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172339It would be a bad move if they needed Bedard to be healthy. Or if they gave up something of consequence for him. Neither of those things are true. It’s a good high-upside gamble that costs them little, nothing more, nothing less.
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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:46:57 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172337I think this guy would fall apart in NY. Last thing the Yankees want is another Ed Whitson, etc. Once upon a time this guy would have made some sense, not that the Yankees have ever shyed away from guys with some baggage, but there just wasn’t enough of an upside imo.
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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:41:47 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172336The Sox took X-Rays and MRI’s of Harden’s arm and did not like what they saw. Note that just about all of Harden’s injuries and time on the DL in his career have been because of that arm. A grievance won’t go anywhere, in fact, Oakland probably knows exactly what they Sox saw in those images of his arm.
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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:39:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172335Woo. I was beginning to think the Dodgers were going to make it through the trade deadline without !@$^U&%$ up. Trayvon Robinson?!?! Really? What did I do wrong in a past life that makes me deserve being born a Dodger fan? They better get really good before I die…
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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:46:57 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172324I am calling BS. This is a better deal for the Red Sox than the Harden deal. But bedard is not a better bet as If I am the A’s I am filing a grievance.
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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:42:31 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172323So Lars Anderson still belongs to the Red Sox! I am sure that he is disappointed.
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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:33:20 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172318Funniest part of all of this , Yankees fans can deny it now , but if they acquired this guy it would be , ” well he has a great track record against the Red Sox , they have alot of lefties , he will be a good pickup , especially considering we didn’t give up any high end prospects .” And so on , it gets old , don’t be upset that the Yankees picked up no one to bolster their rotation , Yankees will win the wild card and lose to the Rangers regardless .
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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:29:01 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172317boston should be clearing room on the DL list asap for Bedard cause it wont be long until he makes a visit
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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:17:56 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172311If the Sox are desperate to add a starter it’s not because the Harden deal fell through, it’s because of the back problems of Clay Bucholz. He could be out anywhere from the next month – or for the year.
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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:12:12 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=75806#comment-172306Wait until his next start before you start handing out kudos. if he gets bombed again you might want to praise Seattle for getting rid of him.
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